10 Roubles Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia - Shirak

The Shirak Regional Public Bank was one of several short-lived local institutions that issued emergency scrip during the chaotic period following Armenian independence and the subsequent Soviet takeover. Shirak, centered on Alexandropol (now Gyumri), operated with considerable administrative independence from Yerevan in 1920–21, and these notes were a practical response to the near-total collapse of reliable currency supply in the region rather than any formal monetary policy decision.

The stamp security feature is characteristic of provincial Armenian issues of this period — a rubber or hand stamp applied locally to validate otherwise plain printed paper, a method that made counterfeiting trivially easy but was the only authentication technology available to small regional offices at the time.